post-

After or subsequent to puberty; the period after puberty.

The period following, or after, puberty.

Behind the nose or behind the olfactory lobe of the brain.

1. Having a postscript.
2. Added in a postscript.

A post script; written afterward.

Anything that is written [added] after the main message of a letter; an afterthought.

1. Relating to or ocurring during the time following an earthquake.
2. Frictional afterslip or deformation following a seismic event.

After a large earthquake, postseismic deformation may result from earthquake-induced slip along the plate interface, commonly referred to as "afterslip", and as viscoelastic relaxation in the volume surrounding the fault rupture. Thus, well-positioned postseismic observations can probe the mechanical properties of subduction megathrusts and the media that surround them.

Occurring as a sequel of typhoid fever.

1. Contrary to nature, reason, or common sense; absurd.
2. Completely devoid of wisdom or good sense.
3. Having that first which ought to be last; inverted in order.
4. Contrary to nature or reason; not adapted to the end; utterly and glaringly foolish; unreasonably absurd; perverted.
5. Synonyms: absurd, perverted, wrong, irrational, foolish, monstrous.
6. Etymology: from Latin pręposterus, "absurd, contrary to nature"; literally, "before-behind" ("topsy-turvy", "cart before the horse", etc.), from prae-, "before" plus posterus, "subsequent, after".

Anything which is preposterous is literally "hind-side before", or utterly ridiculous. A preposterous story is as ridiculous as a horse whose hind part, or tail, is situated where its head should be.

1. Someone who participates in a public display of group feeling.
2. A person who dissents from some established policy.